Thanks for all the suggestions. They haven't helped, tho' The cardctl status command show a 3.3V card, its ready but without details. The cardctl ident command has empty strings.... there is no card info. I also tried the reset options: cardctl eject cardctl insert No luck so I added: read PID</var/...

I am trying to get Puppy installed on an old Hitachi notebook with 128 MB of RAM and a 300 Mhz Pentium II chip. I was mostly able to install AntiX Mepis but it complains a bit about the BIOS being pre-year-2000 [it is 1998]. AntiX finds and automagically uses my older Zyxel wireless card. Just Boots...

I am trying to get Puppy installed on an old Hitachi notebook with 128 MB of RAM and a 300 Mhz Pentium II chip. Previously, I was mostly able to install AntiX Mepis but it complains a bit about the BIOS being pre-year-2000 [its 1998]. It also has some Grub issues.... AntiX finds and automagically us...

One part of the issue is support for older laptops.... Mine is 1998.

Its USB 1 or 1.1

Should I be using a back-dated version of puppy??

Interesting set of posts.... I am trying to get Puppy installed on an old Hitachi notebook with 128 MB of RAM and a 300 Mhz Pentium II chip. I was mostly able to install AntiX Mepis but it complains a bit about the BIOS being pre-year-2000 [its 1998]. AntiX finds and automagically uses my older Zyxe...